Gabrielle Giffords Quotes

There are no good guns. There are no bad guns. Any gun in the hands of a bad man is a bad thing. Any gun in the hands of a decent person is no threat to anybody — except bad people.

Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.

I love guns. I love shooting guns.

We're trying to publicize this one and make people realize that the gun industry can clean up its act and can operate in a way that can reduce the likelihood of guns killing police officers and other innocent people.

Guns are bad, I tell you.

I hate guns, I think they're the worst thing ever invented.

Guns aren't the problem; sick people are.

Not One More Death. Not One More Dollar

Gun Control is Being Able to Hit What You Aim At

Too many policy decisions over the years have been made by men in closed rooms not thinking about the dead bodies. When bullets fly, people die. Pictures ram that message home.

I am neither pro- nor anti-gun. I am gun-conscious.

At the end of the day, there's not a day that goes by without a mass shooting.

Universal background checks work. You keep the guns out of the hands of dangerous people. That shouldn't be partisan - that should be something we can all agree to, but it became this huge battle and, you know, really, really a challenge.

We have to continue to do the work, because we can't see people lose their lives over senseless gun violence.

One of the things we must do to begin to solve our hate problem is to put down our metaphorical weapons, our defenses, our special interests - and be honest about the role that guns play in this culture of hate in America.

We take responsibility for being firearm owners. We take responsibility for whose hands those guns get into.

Elevate those guns a little lower.

The vast majority of people who have guns never hurt anybody.

The fight for sanity in our gun safety laws is not by any means over. In many ways it's just beginning.

My belief is that guns are too easy to get in America. My belief is that the NRA has bought much of our congress, to the point that guns are actually the only unregulated consumer product in America. Think about that. It's stunning.

Surprisingly, I'm not a fan of guns or anything like that!

We must get rid of all the guns.

Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings!

I'm liberal on every social aspect, probably. More liberal than people would even believe. But there's still some of that Texas in me, as far as the gun debate. I wish there were no guns; I'm all for gun restrictions. But I'm also of the mind-set, if nothing changes, I'm getting a gun.

But I'm not particularly comfortable around guns.